Bartlett S. Durham
Dr. Bartlett Leonidas Snipes Durham was an American physician and entrepreneur whose land, donated for a railway station, became the location of Durham, North Carolina, named for him.
Bartlett S. Durham was born and raised roughlymiles west of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in rural Orange County. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, he returned to Orange County and, in 1847 or 1848, purchased 100 acres of undeveloped land in the eastern portion of the county, between settlements known as Prattsburg and Pinhook, likely as a speculative investment, in advance of the planned North Carolina Railroad. In 1849, Durham donatedacres , directly adjacent to his estate, Pandoras Box, to the railroad. The railroad, in turn, named the stop, Durhams Station in his honor.
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